The Wei Dynasty (386–556 AD) and the T’ang Dynasty (618–907 AD) saw the two heydays of Chinese sculpture. In the early period of the Wei Dynasty, the Turkic peoples, who were dominant in the north, introduced Indian Buddhist art to China. This…

Few such groups survive: depictions of St John resting his head on Christ’s shoulder. The majority of them were made between about 1300 and 1350 for convents in the Swabian-Alemannic regions. The group in Frankfurt is from the Dominican Adelhausen…

Oeneus, king of Calydon, had enraged the goddess of the hunt, Artemis, by forgetting to sacrifice to her. In revenge she sent a huge boar to ravage his country. His son, Meleager, and his companions finally succeeded in killing the beast.…